Sorry about vanishing. Its been a hectic few days and I have not been feeling well. Had a scary ER visit but everything seems to be ok for now. Thank you again everyone. Ill try to get caught up on every thing and comment back - HUGS!
I think Acantha would take MOST boarding schools over being trapped in the Palace with Douchimus, T1-G3R... I know I wouldn't wish that on anything remotely human.
@Sheela:... Seeing as Calliope Taylor did not instigate the repair, and Centcom was unaware it was going to happen I have a feeling watchdog is not going to be very cooperative.
I really doubt watchdog would care much either way, it's a "threat response program". Now it the overseer targeted Ceci with it's welding laser then watchdog would have a response.
I find it odd to see the "deep programming" referred to as "Watchdog". Don't know whether there has been Word Of God on it -- but my understanding is that the "deep programming" is a separate personality, that is overriding both the Ceci personality *and* Watchdog... (Including the morality framework imparted by Dr. Bitchy.)
So operation fix the crazy AI is underway. Lets hope it goes well. I have a feeling a fully functional Aeneas is the only good solution to prince doucheness's contingencies.
Wait a moment... a non-psychopathic stabbing sort of android? Those exist? How weird! (from Acantha's perspective...)
Though some of the Cassians seem like they could been a least slightly sane enough on a better day... as Dolly says, New Rome seems be a rough environment for optimism and helpfulness ;)
I don't think Acantha considers all Cassians to be psychopaths. Honestly, they're not. We've seen that and Acantha is bound to know. But even those that aren't tend to be rather... focused.
Cent does her best to make sure there's enough room in each panel for dialogue, though depending on how my scripting goes, it can still be a challenge to make the text layouts flow well. I know how the dialogue runs, of course, so it's not always easy for me to be 100% sure that a reader can follow it. Always glad to know when I succeed. :)
04A seems to be pretty casual about his 'boss' undergoing repairs. Aeneas must be okay with it too, since he didn't resist being tinkered with. When he fully awakens, New Rome will be lifted and shaken like dice in a cup. One can only imagine the Prince's baffled fury as his very city turns against him. I wonder if the Cassians will do rock, paper, scissors to see who squeezes the life out of the little bastard.
Actually, I doubt Aeneas will act in a way that tells everyone that he's at full power because that's likely to cause mass panic. I foresee Decimus going to try to reset his contingencies and them not responding.
Yeah but Acantha and Lynn KNOW that Aeneas wasn't in any shape to repair himself. So I'm with Rash on this, expecting worried confusion from those that have been to visit before.
It's a good thing that nobody outside knows that Aeneas is being repaired because he seems vulnerable to attack right now. Acantha's party are his first line of defence.
Please consider that sufficient repairs to counter "THE CONTINGENCIES" may takes days if not weeks of effort, not to mention actual physical hard wiring of remote locations. But it will be a game changer.
Coordination with Dr. Silver will greatly alter things as well if that can happen.
Once Acantha and Lynn are safely in Aeneas' realm, they'll have all the time they need. Still better to get things done quickly, because people are dying back there, but I think this is the point where Decimus' fate is sealed. Kyle's taking away his ultimatum, and his leverage just took the tram.
There are repairs, and then there are REPAIRS. The first repair should be the one that will allow Aaneas to repair himself. IMHO, once this happens, every repair bot and sub-routine will be sent to fix the areas that were destroyed...
That depends on the exact nature of the contingencies and how Decimus rigged them up. It might actually need amazingly few effort to get to a point where Aeneas can act against at least the majority of them.
I'm guessing because Aeneas remembered him as Lynn's boyfriend. Remember that Acantha had Aeneas's monitoring ring on her person at the dinner (I think it was in her pocket).
{edit} And he was probably monitoring the feed from the morgue. After all he knew what Decimus had tried to do to her before he gave her the ring.
Not to forget that Kyle has the necessary gear to approach Aeneas undetected. And as soon as repairs are starting to really have an effect, it's not far-fetched for Aeneas to decide that he likes the guy doing them.
Hope I'm wrong, but if TR only needs the nanobots inside Kyle delivered into the right area, Kyle's survival is not essential to fixing Aeneas.
He sneaks in, gets assaulted by the defenses, the nanobots leak out onto Aeneas, mission accomplished! This is NOT what I want, to be clear… just possible.
Actually I'm not sure that is true. I get the feeling that was a ruse to get Kyle's body out of the dining hall before someone realized he wasn't quite as dead as advertised.
I have to wonder how Androids will be treated, at least by the Palace, once Acantha takes the throne. Especially if she requests androids from New Troy to help get the bureaucracy in order.
That would go over well, I'm sure! A society of androphobic people suddenly find out that the things they have been taught to fear and despise are now telling them "I'm sorry, but you forgot to fill out supplemental form 1072-C, and I cannot process your request at this time".
And it should be interesting to see Watchdogs reaction.
Hopefully it is favorable.
I had been wondering what Kyle was up to. I didn't think that trip would happen off screen. Did he survive by stealth, or did TR vouch for him?
Though some of the Cassians seem like they could been a least slightly sane enough on a better day... as Dolly says, New Rome seems be a rough environment for optimism and helpfulness ;)
And she's not even trying to stab me?
Weeird.
As for Acantha, its a pretty reasonable attitude for someone raised in this kind of environment. Loss = Friends I suspect.
Glad you're feeling better.
It's great you and Centy can work off each other and make a great team!
Not so strange that 04A is amiable towards it.
Coordination with Dr. Silver will greatly alter things as well if that can happen.
Um, with contingencies like these, a majority is not good enough. You need to be able to counter them all.
Poor Acantha...
Oh, A is getting repaired already...?!? So, how did bluehairguywhosenameshallnotbenamed manage to not be killed...?
PS: I hope you are feeling better now, Cent...
{edit} And he was probably monitoring the feed from the morgue. After all he knew what Decimus had tried to do to her before he gave her the ring.
He sneaks in, gets assaulted by the defenses, the nanobots leak out onto Aeneas, mission accomplished! This is NOT what I want, to be clear… just possible.
Also..."Are you SURE you're an android?" Awesome. :)
Ooh, ER visit. That's too bad, but I'm glad things seem fine. Good luck!
uhm.... yeah....